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...told Republican Senators he would welcome a chance to wield his veto power. The chance may come soon, on a $27 billion emergency bill for the war on terrorism. If Congress loads it up with additional spending, as expected, conservatives are counting on Bush to finally put down the pen and say no. --By Karen Tumulty
...murder of populist politician Pim Fortuyn drove thousands of dazed citizens into the streets in shock, anger and a cataclysmic sense of loss that went beyond one life to encompass the nation itself. A man who just weeks earlier was hotly disputing comparisons with French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen seemed in death to have bizarrely taken on the luster of his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy. His new window on a harder-edged Dutch future, disturbing to some and promising to others, slammed shut before it ever really opened...
...aftermath of the second place finish of the ultra-conservative leader of the French National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, many of have attempted to find some explanation for his surprising electoral showing, an unprecedented “victory” that allowed him to participate in this weekend’s two-man runoff election with incumbent President Jacques Chirac. In the process, it is easy to write off this development as the result of impotent mainstream politicians, the fragmentation of the Left’s vote, or the political apathy of the “silent?...
More specifically, it is European xenophobia and racist intolerance that have catapulted Le Pen and his ilk in Austria, Britain, Italy, Norway, Belgium and Germany into the rosy spotlight of political legitimacy. Scapegoating “immigrants” (nonwhites) as the cause of shrinking employment opportunities, these politicians have preyed upon the fears and biases of populations stung by economic instability. Tough immigration policies are touted as a cure-all for rising crime rates. Non-whites are accused of defiling the homogenous, cultural purity of Western European countries...
Interestingly, this xenophobic bias is not isolated to Le Pen and his horde, as even Chirac has derisively complained about Paris’ African and Arab immigrants. As the Mayor of Paris, he reportedly grumbled about “the overdose of immigrants,” especially their “noise and smell.” During his tenure as mayor, Chirac continued the unspoken practice of relegating poor whites and immigrants to the suburbs that border the city. Thus, Chirac’s recent landslide victory over Le Pen comes as little hope for ameliorating the very factors...